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The Overcrowded Barracoon V. S. Naipaul

The Overcrowded Barracoon By V. S. Naipaul

The Overcrowded Barracoon by V. S. Naipaul

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Drawn together by a single theme - the culture and politics of the barracoon - V.S. Naipaul's collection of essays touches on subjects as diverse as Indian society, John Steinbeck, the origins of the Trinidad Carnival, Norman Mailer and Black Power.

The Overcrowded Barracoon Summary

The Overcrowded Barracoon by V. S. Naipaul

Drawn together by a single theme - the culture and politics of the barracoon - V.S. Naipaul collection of essays touches on subjects as diverse as Indian society, John Steinbeck, the origins of the Trinidad Carnival, Norman Mailer and Black Power. The essays evoke attitudes of disenchantment, self-deception and oppression.

Table of Contents

Part 1 Unlikely colonial: London; Cricket; Jasmine; East Indian. Part 2 india: In the Middle of the Journey; Jamshed into Jimmy; Indian Autobiographies; The Last of the Aryans; Theatrical Natives; A Second Visit - Tragedy the Missing Sense, Magic and Dependence; The Election in Ajmer. Part 3 Looking westward: Mr Matsuda's Million-Dollar Gamble; Steinbeck in Monterey; New York with Norman Mailer; Jacques Soustelle and the Decline of the West. Part 4 Columbus and Crusoe: Columbus and Crusoe; The Ultimate Colony; St Kitts - Papa and the Power Set; Anguilla - the Shipwrecked Six Thousand; Power?; The Overcrowded Barracoon.

Additional information

GOR001207614
9780140041286
0140041281
The Overcrowded Barracoon by V. S. Naipaul
V. S. Naipaul
Used - Very Good
Paperback
Penguin Books Ltd
19760527
320
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